[Laszlo-dev] For Review: Change 20070814-jcrowley-T Summary: long comobox does not render properly on firefox 2.0
David Temkin
temkin at laszlosystems.com
Wed Aug 15 12:08:50 PDT 2007
combobox is a popup that should never be clipped by a containing view.
it floats above other views. but it does get clipped by the canvas
since flash content cannot exceed movie boundaries.
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On Aug 15, 2007, at 1:47 PM, P T Withington <ptw at openlaszlo.org> wrote:
> So, what do you mean by 'tumbles down forever'? If you specify
> sizetocanvas="false", doesn't it get clipped by the canvas? Would
> that ever make sense? I'm thinking you don't need this option.
>
> And, suppose I have one of these inside another view, does it pop
> out of the view? Should it? Is the only limit on its size the
> canvas, or should it be limited by any enclosing view (the canvas
> being the outermost)?
>
> On 2007-08-15, at 14:36 EDT, J Crowley wrote:
>
>> Er, sorry, I didn't mean "clip". What I did was, it'll auto-size
>> itself to the canvas if no size limit is specified. You can turn
>> this off, if for whatever reason you actually WANT a list that
>> tumbles down into forever, by specifying sizetocanvas="false". No
>> clipping is actually involved. Just kind of a weird word thing in
>> my head.
>>
>> On Aug 15, 2007, at 12:51 PM, P T Withington wrote:
>>
>>> I have a hard time imagining you would ever want a combo to be
>>> clipped. Shouldn't it always size itself to the nearest
>>> surrounding clip region?
>>>
>>> On 2007-08-14, at 22:13 EDT, J Crowley wrote:
>>>
>>>> Change 20070814-jcrowley-T by jcrowley at doctormanhattan.mshome.net
>>>> on 2007-08-14 22:05:58 EDT
>>>> in /Users/jcrowley/src/svn/openlaszlo/legals-b
>>>> for http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/branches/legals
>>>>
>>>> Summary: long comobox does not render properly on firefox 2.0
>>>>
>>>> New Features:
>>>>
>>>> Bugs Fixed: LPP-4192
>>>>
>>>> Technical Reviewer: pbr
>>>> QA Reviewer: henry
>>>> Doc Reviewer:
>>>>
>>>> Documentation:
>>>>
>>>> Release Notes:
>>>>
>>>> Details: This one wasn't really that much of a bug, since
>>>> you can set limits on the list size and give it
>>>> a scrollbar if you have to clip it, but I thought
>>>> there should still be some kind of check to make
>>>> sure it's not longer than the canvas. I added
>>>> attribute 'sizetocanvas', default true, to set
>>>> the number of visible elements in an expanded
>>>> list to fit the list on the canvas. In the likely
>>>> rare event one wants to let the list spill off the
>>>> canvas, they can always set sizetocanvas to false.
>>>>
>>>> Tests: Run:
>>>>
>>>> <canvas>
>>>> <combobox id="serviceCombo"
>>>> width="130"
>>>> defaulttext="choose one..." editable="false"
>>>> enabled="true">
>>>> <textlistitem datapath="services:/services/service"
>>>> text="$path{'@name'}"
>>>> value="$path{'@value'}"/>
>>>> </combobox>
>>>> <dataset name="services">
>>>> <services>
>>>> <service name="adamsboswe" value="adamsboswe"/>
>>>> <service name="323iactive" value="323iactive"/>
>>>> <service name="aecom" value="aecom"/>
>>>> <service name="1stomni" value="1stomni"/>
>>>> <service name="acisol" value="acisol"/>
>>>> <service name="ares" value="ares"/>
>>>> <service name="180solutio" value="180solutio"/>
>>>> <service name="ameris" value="ameris"/>
>>>> <service name="11below" value="11below"/>
>>>> <service name="advcommerc" value="advcommerc"/>
>>>> <service name="alloy" value="alloy"/>
>>>> <service name="abnerherrm" value="abnerherrm"/>
>>>> <service name="active" value="active"/>
>>>> <service name="activewind" value="activewind"/>
>>>> <service name="aei" value="aei"/>
>>>> <service name="adelante" value="adelante"/>
>>>> <service name="3spn" value="3spn"/>
>>>> <service name="ampere" value="ampere"/>
>>>> <service name="abundant" value="abundant"/>
>>>> <service name="advantage" value="advantage"/>
>>>> <service name="aethionsi" value="aethionsi"/>
>>>> <service name="altrec" value="altrec"/>
>>>> <service name="arin" value="arin"/>
>>>> <service name="aplia" value="aplia"/>
>>>> <service name="ailiant" value="ailiant"/>
>>>> <service name="about" value="about"/>
>>>> <service name="amerisec" value="amerisec"/>
>>>> <service name="alorica" value="alorica"/>
>>>> <service name="americasho" value="americasho"/>
>>>> <service name="americanap" value="americanap"/>
>>>> <service name="anomaly" value="anomaly"/>
>>>> <service name="anyware" value="anyware"/>
>>>> <service name="aloricaden" value="aloricaden"/>
>>>> <service name="appdiscove" value="appdiscove"/>
>>>> <service name="alpaul" value="alpaul"/>
>>>> <service name="advpersonn" value="advpersonn"/>
>>>> <service name="accesscomm" value="accesscomm"/>
>>>> <service name="absclothin" value="absclothin"/>
>>>> <service name="ainet" value="ainet"/>
>>>> <service name="aismedia" value="aismedia"/>
>>>> <service name="americom" value="americom"/>
>>>> <service name="accessline" value="accessline"/>
>>>> <service name="altntech" value="altntech"/>
>>>> <service name="apex" value="apex"/>
>>>> <service name="adinfuse" value="adinfuse"/>
>>>> <service name="actsgroup" value="actsgroup"/>
>>>> <service name="alliance" value="alliance"/>
>>>> <service name="alphazeta" value="alphazeta"/>
>>>> <service name="akamai" value="akamai"/>
>>>> <service name="aitcc" value="aitcc"/>
>>>> <service name="accellion" value="accellion"/>
>>>> <service name="accor" value="accor"/>
>>>> <service name="agile" value="agile"/>
>>>> <service name="alta" value="alta"/>
>>>> <service name="apptrix" value="apptrix"/>
>>>> <service name="arcap" value="arcap"/>
>>>> <service name="addante" value="addante"/>
>>>> <service name="3amlabs" value="3amlabs"/>
>>>> <service name="altadisusa" value="altadisusa"/>
>>>> <service name="amgen" value="amgen"/>
>>>> <service name="SJC-Lab" value="SJC-Lab"/>
>>>> <service name="accel" value="accel"/>
>>>> <service name="americanto" value="americanto"/>
>>>> <service name="apple" value="apple"/>
>>>> <service name="aci" value="aci"/>
>>>> <service name="accipiter" value="accipiter"/>
>>>> <service name="adpinvest" value="adpinvest"/>
>>>> <service name="acsonline" value="acsonline"/>
>>>> <service name="1ix" value="1ix"/>
>>>> <service name="aas" value="aas"/>
>>>> <service name="altoh" value="altoh"/>
>>>> <service name="adaptivepa" value="adaptivepa"/>
>>>> <service name="abs" value="abs"/>
>>>> <service name="aim2game" value="aim2game"/>
>>>> <service name="areatech" value="areatech"/>
>>>> <service name="appiq" value="appiq"/>
>>>> <service name="advancedac" value="advancedac"/>
>>>> <service name="1stfinanci" value="1stfinanci"/>
>>>> <service name="aig" value="aig"/>
>>>> <service name="800one" value="800one"/>
>>>> <service name="aptela" value="aptela"/>
>>>> <service name="activegrou" value="activegrou"/>
>>>> <service name="apress" value="apress"/>
>>>> <service name="3eco" value="3eco"/>
>>>> <service name="allrecipes" value="allrecipes"/>
>>>> <service name="amselect" value="amselect"/>
>>>> <service name="alpine" value="alpine"/>
>>>> <service name="argis" value="argis"/>
>>>> <service name="3dblinds" value="3dblinds"/>
>>>> <service name="ardennes" value="ardennes"/>
>>>> <service name="003realty" value="003realty"/>
>>>> <service name="amgenuk" value="amgenuk"/>
>>>> <service name="adaptec" value="adaptec"/>
>>>> <service name="aonwarrant" value="aonwarrant"/>
>>>> <service name="adpark" value="adpark"/>
>>>> <service name="apartment" value="apartment"/>
>>>> <service name="arenaone" value="arenaone"/>
>>>> <service name="adchemy" value="adchemy"/>
>>>> <service name="2wire" value="2wire"/>
>>>> <service name="advancecab" value="advancecab"/>
>>>> </services>
>>>> </dataset>
>>>> </canvas>
>>>>
>>>> In both modified and unmodified branches. Note that in unmodified,
>>>> it spills off into forever. In modified, it stops just before, and
>>>> there's a scrollbar. (If one explicitly sets the number of visible
>>>> elements, it'll override this.)
>>>>
>>>> Files:
>>>> M lps/components/base/basecombobox.lzx
>>>>
>>>> Changeset: http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/patches/20070814-jcrowley-T.tar
>>>
>>
>
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